In The Selection series by Kiera Cass, the main character, America, undergoes experiences that change her life to the highest extent.When America is met she lives in Carolina, a section of Illéa, then she is chosen to take part in The Selection. She is immediately brought up the caste system from a five to a three. When she is home in Carolina she is happy and feels supported by her family. Then, when she is brought to Angeles, she feels targeted by the other selected and extrinsic in her new environment. In the first novel, The Selection, America says, “. . . here I was expecting at the very best a cordial welcome from the girls who were prepared to fight me to the death for someone I didn’t want” (pg. 80). She already notices that things are definitely going to be opposite of her home life. …show more content…
She can be jealous and deceiving at times. Her jealousy of the other selected girls is very poignant when she sees that Maxon is giving them more gifts and affection than he is to her. The text in the first book states that, “. . . pointing to two beautiful hair ornaments that were covered in what looked like thousands of dollars’ worth of precious stones . . . This set the room into a new flurry of excitement and disappointment, and my newborn confidence disappeared” (pg. 259-260). However, she seems as though she loves Maxon, but she has an affair with Aspen when he comes to work as a guard at the palace. She even thought that, “When he touched me like that, called me that name, I felt like I was a world away. Upset as I was, Aspen felt like home” (pg. 292). She has feelings for both men. She gets emulous when she isn’t being treated the same by Maxon, yet yearns for time alone with Aspen. She can be very knavish in her
In the Lilies of the Field by William E. Barrett, Homer and Mother Maria both display straightforward, hardworking, and stubborn character traits. Firstly, Homer and Mother Maria both display a straightforward personality by being brutally honest about their opinions. For example, when Mother Maria asks Homer to build a chapel, Homer speaks his mind by telling her he does not want to build it. Mother Maria shows her straightforward behavior during Homer’s stay at the convent. One morning, when Homer sleeps in late, Mother to becomes extremely upset and is not afraid to show how she feels about him. Secondly, both Homer and Mother Maria display a hardworking spirit. Homer is a hardworking man because after finally agreeing to build the chapel,
The definition of compassion: sympathetic pity and concern for the sufferings or misfortunes of others. As this definition shows compassion shows concern for other that every person would love to have. In The Chosen written by Chaim Potok, Mr. Potok really presents compassion in his book. Not only does he display compassion in one of his character but in every single one he gives them compassion that is expressed in different ways. He goes into detail example of compassion with each of his characters and really emphasizes the true meaning of compassion. Three main character that he shows compassion through in different ways are, Reuven, Mr. Malter and Reb Sanders.
Quests do not need to be started by the most likely people, as long as they put all that they have into it they can still succeed. In the book Into The Beautiful North, Nayeli is inspired by the movie “The Magnificent Seven” to bring back men from the United States to liberate Tres Camarones. She wants to bring back the men and her father who had left for jobs, to defend their village from the banditos. There are many circumstance in which Nayeli has to face before she can even get to “Los Yunaites”. She will need assistance from what is most unlikely source. She will face trials that she was never prepared for. Before all of this she has to be called to save her village from outsiders. Nayeli’s perseverance after many trials and her desire
American Character by Colin Woodard, is a book about America’s history and the upcoming of how the United States has become. Woodard starts off first explaining what it was like when America was colonized by the New England colonists and goes onward to present-day America. A book like this should be deemed great for a political history class because of the vast amount of information it has. Although, this book is exceptionally very small for a book of such kind, Woodard loves jumping around from era to era and can leave his readers at a disarray. Claiming so, a strong and prior knowledge of the American history and its government is strongly encouraged. Historical and economic terms are also used immensely in this book, so a thesaurus and dictionary would be of great use. If those two resources aren’t of much help, a recommendation of facts found upon the Internet regarding an era of which Woodard is explaining would be helpful.
There is something about the timing of the book. America in 1959 was at a crossroads; it was still recovering from the second World War and the ensuing economic boom. The country was
Christopher Johnson McCandless, the main character in the book “Into the Wild,” had made a lot of friends even though he did not like people. Wayne Westerberg was one of Chris’s friends who he met in a bar. Chris also befriended a girl named Jan Burre. Another person who befriended Chris was a guy named Ronald Franz,
The Chosen by Chaim Potok is a phenomenal novel about two Jewish boys who live in two very discrepant worlds because of the impressions of their fathers.The Hasidic Rabbi, Reb Saunders wants his son, Danny Saunders, to perdure the family legacy and become a Rabbi. Mr. Malter, Reuven’s father, is an Orthodox Jew who is easy going about what he wants his son to do. Throughout the book, both Reuven and Danny face problems and sufferings that helped them both to become stronger and get through the hard times they faced.
It is culturally expected that as a human being’s age increases, so does the amount of control they have over their own lives. However, when adolescents are allowed to have too little or too little great amount during their formative years, it can adversely affect their decision making process. In The Walls Around Us, Nova Ren Suma crafted young adult characters who, due to either having not enough or too much control over their own lives, react violently when placed in stressful situations.
The next character I will mention is Honorable Gilbert MacWhite, who replaced Ambassador Sears in Sarkhan. This character functioned in complete contrast to Sears. He understood the sensitivity of the US mission in Sarkhan and how vulnerable the Sarkhanese government was to potential communist influences. He also understood the communist threat and did not underestimate it. MacWhite’s understanding of the operational environment was clear from the beginning and made constant efforts in understanding the people of Sarkhan.
The tone of the short story “America and I” changed dramatically over the course of the narrative. The author, Anzia Yezierska, started the story with a hopeful and anxious tone. She was so enthusiastic about arriving in America and finding her dream. Yezierska felt her “heart and soul pregnant with the unlived lives of generations clamouring for expression.” Her dream was to be free from the monotonous work for living that she experienced back in her homeland. As a first step, she started to work for an “Americanized” family. She was well welcomed by the family she was working for. They provided the shelter Yezierska need. She has her own bed and provided her with three meals a day, but after a month of working, she didn’t receive the wage she was so
There are many characters in the Selection series, but these five characters are the most important in The One. America, the narrator of the story, is a feisty, red haired girl with blue eyes who speaks up for what is right and often gets in trouble for it. She grew up caste as a five in the province of Carolina and the middle child of five children. America is thin from not receiving as much food as she should, five feet seven inches tall, and extremely beautiful. America never wanted to be part of the selection, she just wanted to be a musician, singing and playing instruments at the parties of richer citizens until she had enough money to marry her boyfriend Aspen. It was Aspen’s idea to enter the selection in the first place, and
In the novels The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf, They Poured Fire On Us from the Sky, American Born Chinese, and There’s No Jose Here, there are many reoccurring American characteristics. One common American characteristics between the novels is the opportunity to succeed. Many of the refugees come to America to start a new life where they can become successful and live peaceful lives. Another characteristic of America is the education.
Before going to Alaska, Chris McCandless had failed to communicate with his family while on his journey; I believe this was Chris’s biggest mistake. Chris spent time with people in different parts of the nation while hitchhiking, most of them whom figured out that McCandless kept a part of him “hidden”. In chapter three, it was stated that Chris stayed with a man named Wayne Westerberg in South Dakota. Although Westerberg was not seen too often throughout the story, nevertheless he was an important character. Introducing himself as Alex, McCandless was in Westerberg’s company for quite some time: sometimes for a few days, other times for several weeks. Westerberg first realized the truth about Chris when he discovered his tax papers, which stated that “McCandless’s real name was Chris, not Alex.” Wayne further on claims that it was obvious that “something wasn’t right between him and his family” (Krakauer 18). Further in the book, Westerberg concluded with the fact that Chris had not spoken to his family “for all that time, treating them like dirt” (Krakauer 64). Westerberg concluded with the fact that during the time he spent with Chris, McCandless neither mentioned his
Kathryn Dennis of Southern Charm has been dealing with a lot lately, and it sounds like she now has a new man in her life. The bad part is this guy doesn't seem like he is going to be a great influence on her. All About the Tea shared the details all about Kathryn's new man in her life that is known to be a pill pusher. Kathryn has been on again and off with again with Thomas Ravenel for a while, but it now looks like she has moved on.
América’s view of the US changes drastically as the story progress. In the beginning of the story she is full of enthusiasm about coming to America with her husband Candido; due to the fact he promised they would have a better life. As the story progresses reality hits and she realizes that the American Dream isn’t easy to achieve. América realizes this by how she finds herself settling in a canyon with no clean water, not enough money and then having to work a lot after Candido is in the accident and then proceeding to steal from a garden just to have vegetables for her family.